Getting Started

Just wanted to introduce myself in more detail so that evryone here might know who I am and what I'm about.

My name is Michael Welch, 24, and I am currently a student at ITT Technical Institute in Louisville, KY. I am pursuing a Bachelors in Digital Entertainment and Game Design. I am married and I have two children, Ash, my boy is 4 going on 5, and Allie, my girl just turned 3.

Now that the introduction is out of the way...
I have been sitting on me recently purchased TGE for a while now, fooling around with it here and there, and decided that it was time to start getting serious about developing a game. I don't want to create anything outlandishly complicated, just something to test my meddle. I have been developing the documentation for the last couple of weeks and think that I have enough to get started developing the art assets in parallel with the docs.

I want to create a game from one of my all time favorite genres, the Action/Platformer. I have always been fascinated by the simplicity and re-playability of these types of games. I never grow tired of playing games like Mario, Mega Man, Crash Bandicoot, Tak, Jak & Daxter, etc. I hope that with my game, I can capture the essence and fun of these games, and throw in all the elements of a unique and creative world that I create.

Wish me luck and keep checking back for updates!

Thanks for looking,

Mike